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New Book Raps 'Secrecy' About Flying Saucers

Central Intelligence Agency · 2014-06-12 · 1 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This newspaper clipping is held in Central Intelligence Agency records and carries a date of 2014-06-12. It reports on the book "The Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects" by Prof. Charles A. Muncy, a physicist at The Defiance College, and Richard Hall, secretary of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). The book presents the NICAP Board's majority opinion that reliably reported unknown devices are intelligently controlled machines from outer space. It also criticizes the secrecy and debunking it says mark the Air Force's handling of UFO reports.

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## New Book Raps 'Secrecy' About Flying Saucers

DEFIANCE—A new book, "The Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects," by Prof. Charles A. Muncy, physicist at The Defiance College, and Richard Hall, promises to "rattle Washington teacups from the Pentagon to Capitol Hill," according to a report by James R. Hobson in the WORLD, a compact national newspaper published in Washington. Hall is secretary of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena.

A Washington civilian organization, the National Investigations Committee or Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), can forth its own convictions in the Maney-Hall book. opening chapter:

"I is the majority opinion of the NICAP Board (which includes professors, scientists, a farmer CIA director) . . that the unknown devices reported by reliable observers are intelligently controlled machines from outer space."

The 2007 work deplores the alleged resort, the debunking and the con 19 investigations that it says have characterised the Air Person handling of UFO reports.

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